It's that quarterly time of the year again where Google whines about Apple not trusting Google after repeated failures while iMessage has been going strong for over a decade.
It’s the industry’s modern standard.
RCS is designed to work universally, so no matter where you live, who makes your phone or what it runs on, you can enjoy the same texting experience. And today, all of the major mobile carriers and manufacturers have adopted RCS as the standard — except for Apple. Apple refuses to adopt RCS and continues to rely on SMS when people with iPhones message people with Android phones, which means their texting is stuck in the 1990s.
Hopefully Apple can #GetTheMessage so we don’t have to keep waiting to remove the whole “green-versus-blue bubble” thing. Happy birthday, SMS — you were a great start, and you had a good run, but everyone is ready for an upgrade.
Muh bubble wubble war
No fr fr, the bubble wubble war is really real. Poors and people of poor taste didn't get too frick 4/10s because they had a green bubble
Their original goal was to get carriers to implement it themselves and only started hosting it themselves after US carriers tried to frick around by charging extra and limiting it to their own apps and only on their own networks.
Google's been slowly but surely (especially the slowly part unfortunately) making RCS better and better and it seems like they've finally settled on a messaging standard they aren't going to abandon, but I wish they'd get more aggressive with it. Release an API and partner directly with carriers to get them to RCS directly on their networks.
Here in Canada a carrier Freedom Mobile is about to be sold off to a smaller company, being able to advertise the most secure messaging service in the country and an iMessage like experience regardless of the phone you use would be pretty helpful for them and it would help with adoption.
Apple isn't going to add RCS unless the EU forces them too or Google puts the pressure on them in such a significant manner that they feel like they have to.
This dude thinks the EU is going too force one company they want too break up too use another company they want too break up system. Also thinks Google dragging their feet implementing the most basic thing a phone is used for besides talking too people is a great strat 
people of fruity computers discuss
too many pages for @Corp too go through honestly, most is probably boring
Orange chuds don't seem too care
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Why are they comparing it to iMessage? with iMessage you can message from any sheeple device and it will look like you sent it from a phone. But RCS is phone exclusive and carrier dependant and there is no jewgle device ecosystem. Maybe they should just license imessage and implement it
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